Almanac for April 3rd

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Artist Birthday: Washington Irving

Bozeman (MT) Courier, December 4, 1925

Bummer April 3rd

April 3, 1936: Bruno Hauptmann is executed by electric chair at Trenton State Prison in New Jersey for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son Charles (“Charlie”) Lindbergh, Jr.

April 3, 1974: The outbreak of more than 100 tornados in 13 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada, kills more than 300 people.

April 3, 1996: The FBI arrests Ted Kaczynski, the former UC Berkeley mathematics professor accused and later convicted of being the University and Airport Bomber, or UNABomber, who killed three people with bombs between 1978 and 1995. He'd almost blown up American Airlines Flight 444 on November 15, 1979, but fortunately the bomb malfunctioned and passengers suffered smoke inhalation injuries, but survived.

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The Accomac, VA, Peninsula Enterprise, April 3, 1926

Almanac for March 1st

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The Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, February 7, 1926

Artist Birthday #1: Kesha
Kesha at Dorothy Surrenders

Artist Birthday #2: Jensen Ackles

Bummer March 1st

March 1, 1846: 49-year-old newspaper editor John Hampden Pleasants dies of his wounds after being shot in a duel with Thomas Ritchie, editor of the rival newspaper in their shared home of Richmond, Virginia. The two agreed to a duel after Pleasants took offense to Ritchie calling him an "abolitionist." Now, both men were abolitionists; they both favored ending chattel slavery in the United States. However, at that time in the South, "abolitionist" was considered an insult, and the two disagreed, often quite fiercely, on the timetable of when complete abolition of slavery should be accomplished.

March 1, 1932: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of the famed aviator, is abducted from his nursery in the home of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Hopewell, New Jersey. The toddler’s body is found on May 12, 1932. 

A German-American, Richard Bruno Hauptmann, is tried, convicted, and executed for the crime, but questions about his factual guilt remain. His widow maintained his innocence until her death in 1994.

March 1, 1962: American Airlines Flight 1 crashes shortly after takeoff from what is now John F. Kennedy International Airport. All 87 passengers and 9 crew members died in the crash. Linda McCartney’s mother Louise Eastman is among the dead, as is 1952 Olympics sailing gold medalist Emelyn Whiton. Also aboard the plane were 15 paintings by Abstract Expressionist Arshile Gorky. 

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